Donald J. Cram

Who is this?

Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.

Career

1. 1919
   Born
2. 1954
   Won Guggenheim Fellowship
3. 1961
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
4. 1965
   Won ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
5. 1985
   Won Willard Gibbs Award
6. 1987
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7. 1993
   Won National Medal of Science
8. 2001
   Passed away
9. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Chester
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: chemist, university teacher